Benford's law tends to fit better when: * the numbers span many orders of magnitude * the numbers are produced by multiplication (where log(x) is normal-ish),

Benford's law tends to fit better when: * the numbers span many orders of magnitude * the numbers are produced by multiplication (where log(x) is normal-ish), not addition (where x is normal-ish) Your examples span half an order of magnitude, so it definitely doesn't apply (as you say).